孙小兵翻译1班古希腊传说4305130045课题.ppt

The Great Prometheus It’ was said that originally there was no fire on planet and people’s life was particularly tough. People at that could only eat the raw food on account of the absence of fire, so as a result, people spent one long night after another in the boundless darkness. 传说地球上本没有火种，那时人类的生活非常困苦。没有火烧烤食物，只好吃生的东西，没有火来照明，就只好在那无边的黑暗中，度过一个又一个漫长的夜晚…… Prometheus was a titan .in the war between Zeus the giants he had stood on the side of the new olympian gods.out of the clay he made the first man ，to whom Athena gave soul and holy breathe. Prometheus spent a lot of time and energy in creating the gift of fire. and fire raisedman above all animals 普罗米修斯是泰坦巨人之一。在宙斯与巨人的战争中，他站在新的奥林波斯山神一边。他用粘土造出了第一个男人。雅典娜赋予了这个男人灵魂和神圣的生命。普罗米修斯还花费了很多时间和精力创造了火，并将之赠予人类。火使人成为万物之灵。 Zeus agreed to permit Prometheus to send the fire to man-kind as long as the human-being offer up an ox as the sacrifice.Then an good idea came to Prometheus ‘s mind. Prometheus cut up an ox and divided it into two parts ：under the skin he placed the fresh，and under the fat he put the bones，for he knew the selfish Zeus loved fat. Zeus saw through the trick and felt displeased at the Prometheus favor towards men. so in a masterful way he took away the gift of fire from mankind. 众神之王宙斯同意把火种给人类，但是他要求人类必须用一头牛来做献祭。普罗米修斯想出一个妙计。给宙斯献祭的时候，普罗米修斯给宙斯的牛被分成两部分：第一部分是生的牛肉，但没有牛皮；第二部分是皮包着骨头。宙斯一眼就识破了普罗米修斯的言外之意，生气的说：“我拒绝把最重要的东西给人类，那就是火！”  God on the Olympus However Prometheus managed to steal fire from Apollo of heaven and secretly brought it down to men. Standing on the Monut Olympus, Zeus found smoke spiraling from kitchens. And then he investigated the cause and furiouslylfound that it was Prometheus that to blame. Then Zeus decided to punish Prometheus violently. The God of fire respected Prometheus very much and said to him if he regretted his mistakes and returned the fire then Zeus might set him free. Shaking the head, Prometheus refused to apology and said;” there is nothing wrong as long as it does good to human-be